"FORGIVENESS
Confessed Gordon, 'I feel I may be unforgiven for past cruelties and
neglects. Please help me.'
'Do not think about forgiveness from man-made ideas about it. They consist
of assorted illusions, including self-serving sentimentality. Think from
esoteric teachings. Start with the idea of self-forgiveness. This occurs
each time conscious behaviour replaces mechanical and memorized behavior.
To say the same thing another way, forgiveness occurs by dropping the past
to live only in the present moment. The eternal now has no past, therefore
no guilt, therefore no need to even think about forgiveness.'
'What about forgiveness from those I have harmed?'
'Anyone you have offended who has found the light will understand all you
have just heard, so he forgives you as he has forgiven himself. Those still
in darkness, the majority of people, have no understanding of real
forgiveness, so you can forget them. Truth has provided total
forgiveness.'"
Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 72 (Original version)
p. 69 (Current version)
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